"Every week, at least one child dies of malaria in Mawoito. Given the poverty levels in the village, the families here cannot buy a net, which costs $2.7. Most of the children who are attacked by this killer disease are not able to go to school once they fall sick and this hampers their academic performance in class since they are not able to attend school regularly. Similarly, this affects the family income since all the little money got is spent on buying medicine for the sick children in the family. To those who are orphans, the situation is made worse in that they are not even able to access basic first line treatment since they have no one to take them their other village health workers. Therefore, this makes them very prone to the disease in that they live in a very miserable state for example the type of houses they sleep in makes them prone to attacks from mosquitoes since they have nothing to cover themselves which could prevent them from catching the disease. The Government has not taken it upon itself to cater for the orphans and other vulnerable children in terms of social protection hence making them vulnerable to any attack. The children still become inefficient in attending school since a sick mind can not capture any thing while in class and therefore this makes them academically poor as a result of malaria attacks.

Its therefore upon such a background that we came out as childcare project to agitate for the rights of the orphaned children so that they can be able to access to some basic medical attention like the one of providing mosquito nets. The children are between the ages of 6-18 years. Our project has a total number of 360 orphaned children whom we want to help with these nets so that they can also live a life that is healthy just like any other human being.

Donate a net and save the lives of our orphaned children."
Tonny